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Research vs. Primary Care

##             short_name school_rank
## 1    Cal San Francisco    3.605551
## 2           Washington    9.055385
## 3              Harvard    9.055385
## 4                 Pitt   17.204651
## 5         Pennsylvania   20.880613
## 6                 UCLA   23.021729
## 7                  UNC   25.495098
## 8             Michigan   26.248809
## 9               Baylor   27.202941
## 10            Colorado   27.658633
## 11  Texas Southwestern   29.681644
## 12            Stanford   31.048349
## 13              Oregon   32.249031
## 14            Maryland   32.649655
## 15             Chicago   36.055513
## 16    Brown University   37.696154
## 17       Cal San Diego   37.735925
## 18                Mayo   38.626416
## 19             Alabama   41.231056
## 20         U Wisconsin   42.059482
## 21              U of U   43.011626
## 22           Minnesota   43.104524
## 23          Ohio State   43.863424
## 24                Iowa   44.011362
## 25          Vanderbilt   44.922155
## 26           Rochester   45.221676
## 27            Virginia   46.097722
## 28        Northwestern   46.238512
## 29             Indiana   47.010637
## 30             Cornell   47.127487
## 31               Emory   47.413078
## 32                 NYU   48.041649
## 33               UMASS   48.052055
## 34            Boston U   48.166378
## 35           Cal Davis   51.623638
## 36       Johns Hopkins   52.086467
## 37            Nebraska   53.460266
## 38 Washington St Louis   57.070132
## 39                 USC   59.059292
## 40           Dartmouth   59.203040
## 41   Texas San Antonio   59.203040
## 42             Florida   60.605280
## 43                  KU   64.776539
## 44     Albert Einstein   67.119297
## 45          Cincinnati   67.475922
## 46                Yale   68.731361
## 47               Tufts   71.840100
## 48            Mt Sinai   71.847060
## 49       South Florida   72.470684
## 50   Memphis Tennessee   72.801099

This is an exploration of the data. What I did here was visualize the data in a cartesian coordinate system, with research and primary care rank being on the x and y systems. This helped me visualize how the two relate.


With this, I wanted to see which of the schools was “closest” to 0, as that would be the one that is absolute best. I took the square root of each the research rank squared and primary care rank squared. According to pygathorean theory, this will give the length of the line from “0,0”. The smaller the number, the better the combined ranks.


According to this, Cal San Fran is the best school, according to the combination of research and primary care.

Research and Temple Distance

Ultimately, I love research and I love the temple. I think that these are the two biggest things I hope to consider. Let’s explore the two together, similar to the last one.

This plot explores research rank and distance to the temple, with the closer one is to zero being the better result. I need to run a similar square root assessment as before.

##              short_name temple_research
## 1                   NYU        3.773592
## 2               Harvard        5.099020
## 3          Pennsylvania        6.390618
## 4              Columbia        7.068239
## 5              Mt Sinai       11.280514
## 6               Cornell       14.142136
## 7            Washington       15.000000
## 8   Washington St Louis       17.804494
## 9                  UCLA       19.037857
## 10        Cal San Diego       20.080837
## 11    Cal San Francisco       20.223748
## 12           Vanderbilt       23.021729
## 13                 Duke       25.709920
## 14                Emory       25.864261
## 15   Texas Southwestern       26.405492
## 16                 Pitt       28.653098
## 17         Northwestern       29.410882
## 18             Colorado       30.413813
## 19           Ohio State       31.320920
## 20                  USC       32.249031
## 21                  UNC       32.649655
## 22               Oregon       33.241540
## 23             Boston U       34.539832
## 24               U of U       35.216615
## 25              Alabama       35.341194
## 26             Stanford       35.902646
## 27              Chicago       36.055513
## 28        Johns Hopkins       37.121422
## 29               Baylor       37.202150
## 30      Albert Einstein       40.718546
## 31                 Yale       45.122057
## 32             Maryland       45.453273
## 33            Minnesota       46.238512
## 34              Indiana       46.529560
## 35        South Florida       47.032329
## 36             Michigan       48.104054
## 37    Texas San Antonio       48.507731
## 38            Rochester       50.931326
## 39           Cal Irvine       51.039201
## 40                Miami       51.865210
## 41            Cal Davis       54.083269
## 42     Thomas Jefferson       56.022852
## 43                Tufts       56.222771
## 44           Georgetown       56.750683
## 45                UMASS       61.073726
## 46             Illinois       61.326992
## 47 Mcgovern Puerto Rico       61.400326
## 48               U Conn       62.104428
## 49                   KU       65.734314
## 50     Brown University       66.887966

Awesome, another analysis down. With this, we can be assured that NYU is the best for research and temple distance.

Research and MCAT Score

I am sure there is, but my next thought was what the correlation looked like between research rank and MCAT score. A simple plot should show this information to me.


Alright, based on that alone, the regression seems super strong. I don’t need much more statistical analysis. This just shows that if I want to go to a high level research university, I have to have a great MCAT score.

Research and Total Admittance

This plot is hard to read. Let’s look at it graphically.

##             short_name admit_research
## 1           Washington       12.83978
## 2              Harvard       14.34106
## 3    Cal San Francisco       15.76790
## 4         Pennsylvania       17.06408
## 5             Columbia       17.58876
## 6                 Duke       20.61628
## 7        Johns Hopkins       21.48705
## 8                 Pitt       21.55794
## 9             Mt Sinai       21.80961
## 10            Stanford       21.88146
## 11            Michigan       22.27170
## 12        Northwestern       22.94376
## 13                UCLA       23.52374
## 14                 NYU       24.53154
## 15 Washington St Louis       24.88466
## 16              Baylor       26.00705
## 17             Cornell       26.22288
## 18        Case Western       26.32730
## 19                Yale       26.47131
## 20  Texas Southwestern       27.33306
## 21          Vanderbilt       27.69109
## 22               Emory       27.71957
## 23       Cal San Diego       27.72010
## 24                 UNC       28.10316
## 25                Mayo       28.17439
## 26            Colorado       30.57519
## 27                 USC       31.17960
## 28          Ohio State       32.32892
## 29            Maryland       33.47595
## 30             Chicago       33.62232
## 31            Virginia       33.91697
## 32             Alabama       34.32102
## 33            Boston U       35.53711
## 34              Oregon       36.11892
## 35    Brown University       38.68343
## 36     Albert Einstein       39.14749
## 37         U Wisconsin       39.55513
## 38              U of U       40.53638
## 39             Florida       40.75789
## 40             Indiana       41.58719
## 41           Rochester       43.47708
## 42           Minnesota       44.07622
## 43                Iowa       44.13605
## 44               Miami       44.69994
## 45          Cincinnati       45.21735
## 46       South Florida       48.01798
## 47   Texas San Antonio       48.42682
## 48               UMASS       49.36087
## 49         Wake Forest       50.16759
## 50           Dartmouth       53.86577

Well cool. Washington has the highest number of admittance versus research rank in the nation.

Research and MD/PhD

Now we copy almost exactly what we studied before, except this time, we are only looking into the number of MD/PhD students admitted versus their MCAT score.


And a table to understand this better:

##              short_name padmit_research
## 1               Harvard        4.654155
## 2                   NYU        6.213057
## 3          Pennsylvania        7.211103
## 4              Columbia        8.256609
## 5         Johns Hopkins        8.856887
## 6     Cal San Francisco        8.856887
## 7                  Yale       11.300479
## 8   Washington St Louis       11.704700
## 9            Washington       13.453624
## 10             Stanford       13.691486
## 11             Mt Sinai       13.800161
## 12                 Duke       13.865425
## 13           Vanderbilt       14.424372
## 14              Cornell       15.062012
## 15                 Pitt       15.974091
## 16                 Mayo       17.873354
## 17         Northwestern       18.260461
## 18             Michigan       19.278087
## 19                 UCLA       20.298286
## 20        Cal San Diego       22.360680
## 21                Emory       23.525400
## 22               Baylor       23.804299
## 23                  UNC       26.156674
## 24             Colorado       28.792360
## 25             Virginia       30.135747
## 26             Maryland       31.579265
## 27           Ohio State       31.622777
## 28              Alabama       33.526109
## 29               Oregon       33.874132
## 30     Brown University       35.355339
## 31               U of U       35.438174
## 32      Albert Einstein       37.595804
## 33            Rochester       38.632328
## 34              Florida       39.054449
## 35                 Iowa       42.478898
## 36              Indiana       43.417527
## 37                  USC       43.532874
## 38           Cincinnati       44.412350
## 39            Minnesota       44.412350
## 40                Miami       45.310944
## 41                UMASS       48.633836
## 42    Texas San Antonio       49.867602
## 43           Cal Irvine       53.654243
## 44     SUNY Stony Brook       54.152163
## 45             Nebraska       55.558778
## 46             Illinois       56.453701
## 47 Mcgovern Puerto Rico       56.648036
## 48       South Carolina       57.378132
## 49            Dartmouth       57.620405
## 50           Georgetown       59.464275

As Harvard is the closest one to zero, it has the highest number of MD/PhD students according to the highest research rank.

Primary Care and Temple Distance

This plot explores primary care rank and distance to the temple, with the closer one is to zero being the better result. I need to run a similar square root assessment as before.

##             short_name temple_care
## 1               Oregon    9.848858
## 2              Harvard   10.295630
## 3           Washington   12.041595
## 4                 UCLA   13.055267
## 5             Colorado   15.231546
## 6            Minnesota   17.262677
## 7                   KU   18.027756
## 8   Texas Southwestern   18.117671
## 9            Cal Davis   19.697716
## 10          New Mexico   20.000000
## 11   Cal San Francisco   20.099751
## 12        Pennsylvania   20.120636
## 13                 UNC   21.587033
## 14              U of U   25.302371
## 15                Pitt   26.925824
## 16             Alabama   30.016662
## 17   Memphis Tennessee   30.528675
## 18             Indiana   31.827661
## 19       Cal San Diego   32.050585
## 20          Ohio State   33.241540
## 21              Baylor   34.000000
## 22   Texas San Antonio   37.947332
## 23            Maryland   38.078866
## 24            Boston U   38.275318
## 25               UMASS   40.261644
## 26             Chicago   42.426407
## 27           Rochester   43.600459
## 28               Emory   44.147027
## 29             Cornell   45.044423
## 30               Tufts   45.276926
## 31            Stanford   46.097722
## 32          Vanderbilt   47.010637
## 33                 NYU   48.106548
## 34          Texas Tech   48.398760
## 35            Michigan   49.244289
## 36        Northwestern   49.244289
## 37            Oklahoma   52.773099
## 38         KC Missouri   53.600373
## 39                 USC   54.405882
## 40       South Florida   56.851033
## 41 Washington St Louis   57.723479
## 42         Saint Louis   57.974132
## 43     Albert Einstein   58.523500
## 44    Brown University   58.694122
## 45    Thomas Jefferson   61.020980
## 46          Cal Irvine   61.032778
## 47            Nebraska   63.387696
## 48       Johns Hopkins   63.820060
## 49              U Conn   65.099616
## 50            Illinois   65.924199

Awesome, another analysis down. With this, we can be assured that Oregon is the best school regarding only Primary care Rank and Temple Distance.

Primary care and MCAT Score

My next thought was what the correlation looked like between primary care rank and MCAT score. A simple plot should show this information to me.


Alright, based on that alone, there is not much correlation. Interesting, as you would think that higher ranked hospitals for care would correlate to higher MCAT scores.

Primary Care and Total Admittance

This plot is hard to read. Let’s look at it graphically.

##            short_name admit_care
## 1          Washington   9.211947
## 2           Minnesota  10.134737
## 3                 UNC  13.776350
## 4                  KU  15.482901
## 5            Colorado  15.551277
## 6   Cal San Francisco  15.608541
## 7             Harvard  16.901656
## 8              Oregon  17.221397
## 9               UMASS  18.096839
## 10               UCLA  19.009643
## 11               Pitt  19.202733
## 12 Texas Southwestern  19.444701
## 13           Nebraska  20.465153
## 14             Baylor  21.174667
## 15   Brown University  21.619620
## 16          Cal Davis  21.920153
## 17           Maryland  22.464170
## 18               Iowa  22.869004
## 19            Indiana  24.031112
## 20        U Wisconsin  24.405093
## 21           Michigan  24.637951
## 22       Pennsylvania  25.596538
## 23         New Mexico  28.272906
## 24            Alabama  28.808547
## 25  Memphis Tennessee  29.705793
## 26             U of U  32.298581
## 27         Ohio State  34.192966
## 28          Rochester  34.601400
## 29           Stanford  36.260148
## 30      Cal San Diego  37.314932
## 31  Texas San Antonio  37.843844
## 32           Virginia  38.410422
## 33           Arkansas  38.855385
## 34      East Carolina  38.875574
## 35           Boston U  39.177626
## 36            Chicago  40.378957
## 37               Mayo  43.517772
## 38          Dartmouth  44.592833
## 39              Emory  45.258971
## 40       Northwestern  45.677307
## 41              Tufts  46.666828
## 42           Oklahoma  49.396013
## 43         Vanderbilt  49.465104
## 44                VCU  49.836627
## 45         Texas Tech  49.901098
## 46            Cornell  50.166121
## 47            Florida  50.952973
## 48                USC  53.778877
## 49         Cincinnati  53.848014
## 50                NYU  53.868326

Well cool. Washington has the highest number of admittance versus primary care rank in the nation.

Primary Care and MD/PhD